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| title = The Anaconda
| card = File:Judgement.png
| origin = Blood or and Flesh| titles = The Anaconda<br />The Rib-Key<br />The Shedder of Skins<br />The Bedaggered Adder| names = The Anaconda-Decieved<br />The Joined<br />Thora, Wyrm-Watcher<br />Elaine, Wyrmspeaker| aspects = {{Aspect|Knock}} {{Aspect|Winter}} {{Aspect|Moth}}| arrival = c. 500 1100 B.C.E.
| owners = [[User:Anaconda With Sword|Anaconda With Sword]]
}}'''The Anaconda''' ('''The Shedder of Skins''', '''The Rib-Key''', '''The Bedaggered Adder''', once known as '''Scáthach''') is the Twenty-First Hour of the Fansus, created by [[User:Anaconda With Sword|Anaconda With Sword]]. It is either a God-From-Flesh or a God-From-Blood, ascending to Hourhood after the Segmenting of the Serpent. Its aspects are [[:Category:Knock|Knock]] and , [[:Category:Winter|Winter]], and [[:Category:Moth|Moth]] in decreasing order of importance. There’s argument for the tertiary being [[Moth]]- this is an hour that enjoys starting debates, telling riddles, and making groan-inducing puns. The jungleAnaconda's spheres are wild things, the arcticcurses, places that are wild and untouched are holy to the Anacondaassassinations.
The Rite of the Lindorm Historian recreates the ascension of the Anaconda in microcosm; it’s an area of debate as has been claimed to relate to whether this qualifies as the sacrifice or the ascension of the being the Anaconda was. The Anaconda has, occasionally, provided evidence for one side or the other to continue the debate.
Its tarot card is Judgement.
==Description===== Appearance ===
The Anaconda takes the appearance of a vast constrictor, typically carrying a sword or some sort of weapon. It is this form which most adepts will view and potentially even interact with. This is also the traditional depiction of the Anaconda in occult art. The Anaconda has often been conflated with Jörmungandr or other "world serpents," but has thankfully not been known to leave the Mansus since its ascension to Hourhood.
On occasion, the Anaconda has been recorded as appearing as a genderless humanoid figure with seven snakeskin shifts. There are no known records of the Anaconda's motives for taking this form, but they always correspond to deaths. It does not please the Anaconda to be depicted in this form, and those who have often die as well, their works going missing.
=== Principles ===
The Anaconda is an Hour of assassinations, of the silent death which takes away all sound and breath. Thieves, smugglers, and those who do not wish to be noticed often call upon the Anaconda to keep them from sight. Explorers, naturalists, and wanderers have also called upon the Anaconda to let them reach paths others have not tread, and to keep their travels from disturbing the places they walk. Interestingly, those fond of bad puns have also been known to invoke the Anaconda's wit, and the Hour itself may purposefully make those puns itself.
=== Cults ===
'''The Ouroborines''', domain of the '''Undawned''': the cult which foolishly revered both the Wrong-Serpent and the Rib-Key. Their motto was ''To break the cycle.''
'''Judicar's Order''', domain of the '''Scaled Ones''': A cult solely devoted to the Anaconda, where the exalted shed their identity and their skins to become something greater than they were before. Their motto is ''From order, justice. From justice, peace. From peace, knowledge.''
'''The Garrison''', domain of the '''Sentries''': A cult devoted to the Anaconda, with the occasional secondary worship of Hours like [[Old Tarnished]], where the exalted guard the mortal world from the ever-encroaching dangers of the Mansus. Their motto is ''We stand guard, at the end.''
=== Mark ===
== Servants ==== Servants =Emanations===
* '''Stollenwurm:''' The cat-headed Stollenwurm resembles others of its kin; two-limbed and long-bodied. When you pat it, perhaps you will feel scales, or hair like a copper brush, or teeth like pearl knives.
* '''Whiteworm:''' Seeing a Whiteworm is only lucky if you are not the one in its jaws.
== Locations ==
=== The Fansus ===
The Anaconda has no one location in the Mansus. It curates [[the Wyrm's Museum]], swims within [[the Aquarium]], coils around the spires of [[the Golden City]], and chases the Tail around and around. It holds no court, but neither does it reject the company of wanderers who happen upon it.
=== The Histories ===
* '''A Decrepit Asylum:''' An aspiring psychologist once attempted to prove his theory of pan-human archetypes by sending children into the Mansus. It would be distinctly unwise to enter the place he experimented within, but there may be something there of use.
* '''Probably a Colony:''' No one could be said to have won the War of the Doors, not even the Hours who fought in it. All that remains is a pile of corpses, and what they carried on them when they died.
* '''Probably Not a Colony:''' No one could be said to have won the War of the Doors, not even the Hours which fought in it. The simultaneous crushing and rending of the Ways has left this area scarred, and even a slight injury can send horrors spilling out from the skin.
== Items ==
=== Tools ===
* '''Shed Garrote''' ({{Aspect|Winter|8}}, {{Aspect|Knock|12}}): It constricts.
* '''Pass-Fang''' ({{Aspect|Knock|8}}): Keys are attuned to a certain configuration of wards. This tooth is attuned to all of them.
=== Ingredients ===
* '''Scale Whip''' ({{Aspect|Edge|2}}): Useful for some Rites.
* '''Juliette Eunectes''' ({{Aspect|Edge|2}}, {{Aspect|Winter|2}}): A parody of the libertine novel Juliette, wherein the characters are all different types of serpents. Why are you reading this, again?
* '''The Tears of the Conjoined''' ({{Aspect|Winter|4}}): An acrostic poem in the style of the tomb of Silo of Oviedo; each page contains numerous ways of reading the same phrase.
* '''What Might be the Truth: ''' ({{Aspect|Secret Histories|10}}, {{Aspect|Heart|10}}): A compilation of advice for the aspiring explorer. In Old Norse.
* '''Princess Lindworm''' ({{Aspect|Knock|12}}, Rite of the Lindorm Historian): An ancient fairy tale, in its original form. In Proto-Germanic.
=== Rites ===
* '''Rite of the Lindorm Historian's Creation:''' "Shed a shiftIn certain places or occasions of power, Maiden!" "First shed the Rib-Key locks the essence of a skin, Lindormbeing into their body until the prescribed rites are completed." The experience is unsettling for all, and excruciatingly painful for the assistant will be changed in this rite. " Requires an ingredientinfluence, an assistant, and lore. Consumes ; consumes the assistant; if the pertinent Desire and a Scale Whip are used in the rite, this will allow for a Knock ascension.
== Relationships ==
* [[The Meatgrinder]]: A confusing, albeit surprisingly cherished, child. At first begrudgingly tolerated, but the continued attempts at connection managed to win the Anaconda over. They'll learn the Law someday, if the Anaconda has anything to say about it.
* [[The Architeuthian]]: These two Hours have typically been considered to be friends. The Anaconda has never needed to break into the Aquarium, and the Names known as the Anaconda-Decieved and the Joined have long been under the Architeuthian's watchful gaze. It has been said that they collaborated at least on Platypode-Plague, and perhaps have done other things in other Histories.
* [[Snake Tail with Appendages]]: The Anaconda chases the Tail like the Ouroboros of myth. The two shall continue their battle until the Great Serpent is brought to the Fansus once again.
* [[The Anvil]]: The Anaconda and the Anvil supposedly collaborated on the Gilded Gate, and other projects.
* [[The Maker]]: The Anaconda and the Maker disliked each other immensely when the latter still existed. The Anaconda does not like being bothered or touched, and the Maker was interested in improving it further when it was still merely a Long. It has been said that the Anaconda assisted the Anvil in the construction of the Gilded Gate for the imprisonment of the Maker alone as much as for the preservation of the Fansus.
* [[The DecieverDeceiver]]: The Anaconda has always had complicated feelings about this complicated Hour. Followers of the Anaconda never trafficked with it if at all possible, and neither did the Hour. Despite the Anaconda's status as judicator of the rules of the Fansus, it was not the one to slay the DecieverDeceiver.* [[The Ferryman]]: As a former Name of the Great Serpent, the Anaconda is aware of the deal the Dolomodes was made to accept. While many of the Great Serpent's more whimsical rules have fallen by the wayside since its journey, the Anaconda keeps a watchful eye out to ensure that this deal remains kept.* [[The Vizier]]: While the Anaconda has never considered this Hour to be trustworthy, as a fellow former Name of the Great Serpent, these two often shared goals. The Anaconda has great respect for the Vizier's governing acumen, something which it does not share. When these two Hours shared the same goals, the Mansus flourished.* [[The Void-In-Skins]]: The Anaconda worked to corral this Hour as a Name, and now that it is an Hour as well, takes the containment of this and other Hours from Nowhere very seriously.* [[The Great Serpent]]: The Great Serpent was the Hour which took the Anaconda as its nameName, before the Segmenting. The Anaconda is deeply loyal to what it perceives as its patron's wishes, and takes on the duties which those wishes entail with great responsibility. A Name of the Deceiver once claimed to have heard the Anaconda refer to the Great Serpent as "Father," although all claims made by adherents of the Deceiver should be taken with a grain of salt.
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